The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-05

as every other article, are in nal.
shades, blues, creams, the new . re- PM
every other tint in vogue this snrino, liz y ans
together with the lavish allowancse - taAel
pure and Valenciennes bestowed mon - sui
they bring the aggregate cost of orr , .oein
woman's trousseau very dangerousIy Jung
the hmlt hrst set. She will be nr La
bride, but not one bit prettier thar bsFegtty
one young wife of the writer's acona; MAJ Il IKE
she had had but S35 with which 70 'anGe;
herself sweet against her bridal dav D'aAs
THE CONCORD SCHOOL.
Elizabeth Peabody, one of the las.
bygone generation of Bostonians G@ OF
ming for the coming session of the C = pan,
School of Philosophy as enereeticaII,, ~
she We're not 50 years old and over arS a.
two sisters, the wives of Hawtbo,1,..N Aer
Horace Mann, who with her made one ana .n
most interesting trios of women tLot tne
country has produced, had not dronra adt =, ths
activities III the grave. With her un;o vuer
fashioned and abnormally rusty how
every new edition of which is VET mo U-li .t,
despair and the comical pride Of her frio, oto
than was the last, her white cotton a, illus
and her black lace shawl, she is ~, slo D.S
recognizable figure at every public rs .tIstiy
ing of phifanthropic or philosor,bic s S,s..
There never was a kinder heart, and in Son'.
directions there have been few clearer Ms
than hers. A good many people imnose 1 os
her nowadays, and more than ono os L VI
proteges has turned out distressinplv n ,er
grateful in the end ui'-
Another unique figure in Boston lifo :.
MISS hannah stevenson, who years ago was
theodore Parkers amanuensis and inte
lectual helpmate, supplying him on the men.
tai side what his wife did on the affectionai
and who is now kindly, gray-haired ,~a'
man, whom the girl students of Boston I'm;
Yerslty like to visit and who for A nurnha.
of years, as Treasurer of that lone-nar,oJ
Society for the Promotion of the Universe.
Education of Women, put into the hands ~
some the means to continue their stud;s.
with courtesy so kindly that the most Sen0
sltlve accepted without question.
PERSONAL POINTS.
Of all the pretty sights to be seen MA -.
summer day one of the most picturesre !.
the white-haired poet Whittier sitting Iinda =,
the vines on the porch of his house at T1ak
Knoll, Danvers, Mass, the little girl of his
heart, the adopted daughter of his cousins
the Johnsons, and the pet of the household
playing about him, her bright, elfsb facs
lifted in quick sympathy to his.
They say that newspaper women ar.
chiefly notable for never dressing well on
New York members of the guild, Mrs Fan.
ME B, Merrill, of the Graphic. Mrs. Ger.
trude Garrison, editor of the American
Press Association, and Mrs Bowman, mus.
cal critic of the Sun, are marked executions
to the rule, if rule it be- They all know
how to choose their gowns, Mrs. Merrill
especially doing so with unusual taste; Mrs
Laura C. Holloway was never seen with A
misfit; and of the correspondents, Olive
Logan has passion for jewels, Clara Lana
an exquisite sense of color fitness, and Lillian
Whiting understands draperies as well as
poems or pictures.
OF the hobbies of women writers Mrs
Frances Hodgson Burnett is devoted to old
armor, Miss Mary L. Booth, of Harper's
Bdzar, to old coins; Mrs Frank Leslie to
laces, Jennie June to rare china, Anna Katb.
crime Green to Illuminated books and old
missals, and Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge torars
prints.
1t is an interesting point as regards the
Saturday half holiday movement that one
of its fruits on the first afternoon the law
went into effect in New York was a womans
ear chewed off by her husband, who did not
neglect the extra opportunity afforded him
to get drunk There are plenty Of husbands
who did not chew their wives ears, how.
ever. Z. PHI